Showing posts with label Iron Curtain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Iron Curtain. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 20, 2013

"The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain" by Peter Sis

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Yesterday I read a children's picture book that took me right back to the nine months I spent in Prague, Czech Republic. Peter Sis, ...
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Thursday, December 30, 2010

Does the World Need the Opposite of a Nobel Peace Prize?

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Do you remember when Ronald Reagan first declared the totalitarian Soviet Union an "evil empire?" Many citizens in the Soviet Unio...
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Monday, November 9, 2009

Remembering the Fall of the Berlin Wall

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When the fall of the Berlin Wall happened, I remembered being 100% glued to my television set. I was 30 years old at the time. Old enough ...
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Saturday, April 18, 2009

"We are here because enough people ignored the voices who told them that the world could not change!"

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What's Latin for "they came, they saw, they charmed?" That's what President and Mrs. Obama did when he spoke to the Czech...
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Thursday, October 9, 2008

"An Iron Curtain has descended"

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Driving through Missouri is a pleasure because the glaciers did not make it down this far from the North to flatten the earth. All the count...
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Friday, May 2, 2008

My History with Czechs (part one)

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It's very hard to know or remember now, just how forbidden and mysterious everything was behind the Iron Curtain before it fell. Americ...
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